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Tahir ibn Husayn

Abbasid caliphate general and the founder of Taheri Emirate (821–822)

6 dated entries naming Tahir ibn Husayn, drawn from 6 separate years between 775 CE and 822 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century

  • 775Tahir ibn Husayn, 9th-century Persian Abbasid governor (or 776)source
  • 776Tahir ibn Husayn, Muslim governor (or 775)source

9th century

  • 811Fourth Fitna: Abbasid caliph al-Amin appoints Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan as governor of Khurasan, in northeast Persia, and sends an army of 40,000 men with him against his half-brother al-Ma'mun. Ibn Mahan's army is defeated by a smaller army under Tahir ibn Husayn, at Rayy. During the fighting Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan is killed.source
  • 812Fourth Fitna: Forces loyal to al-Ma'mun, led by Tahir ibn Husayn, blockade Baghdad, which is loyal to al-Ma'mun's brother, Caliph al-Amin, and begin the year-long Siege of Baghdad.source
  • 821Tahir ibn Husayn, an Iranian general, is appointed as governor of Khurasan, as a reward for supporting the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in the Fourth Fitna.source
  • 822Tahir ibn Husayn, founder of the Tahirid Dynastysource

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